{"id":145329,"date":"2018-01-11T00:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T05:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145329"},"modified":"2018-01-11T00:25:25","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T05:25:25","slug":"senate-to-tackle-cha-cha-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/11\/senate-to-tackle-cha-cha-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to tackle cha-cha next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_108333\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108333\" style=\"width: 429px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Senateseal-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-108333\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Senateseal-1.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: Senate (PNA Photo)\" width=\"429\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Senateseal-1.jpg 429w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Senateseal-1-297x300.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 429px) 100vw, 429px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: Senate (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA \u2014<\/strong>The Senate would resume hearings on the proposed revision of the 1987 Constitution on January 17 (Wednesday), 9 a.m., Senator Francis Pangilinan said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Pangilinan, chair of the Senate committee on constitutional amendments and revision of codes, said that the Senate would tackle three bills on amending the Constitution namely:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Resolution of Both Houses No. 1 by Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon<\/li>\n<li>Joint Resolution No. 1 by Senator Richard Gordon<\/li>\n<li>Senate Bill No. 128 by Senator Miguel Zubiri.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through discussions, Pangilinan said that he would also want to find out if there was really a need to amend the Constitution and the reasons for amending it or not.<\/p>\n<p>Pangilinan stressed that if there was indeed a need to amend the Constitution, they should also determine which parts should be revised and find out why.<\/p>\n<p>He also wanted to know if the revisions should take the constitutional assembly (con-ass) or the constitutional convention (con-con) mode.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, he said that it was important to settle once and for all if voting on the Constitution should be done by the Senate and House of Representatives jointly or separately.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he also raised the question on whether Congress could pass a resolution limiting the power of the con-ass or con-con or were their powers plenary.<\/p>\n<p>Expected to attend the hearing are constitution experts, members of the academe, business sector, labor, civil society, and other concerned stakeholders.\u00a0<em><strong>(PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014The Senate would resume hearings on the proposed revision of the 1987 Constitution on January 17 (Wednesday), 9 a.m., &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":108333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[7249,3251],"class_list":["post-145329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-cha-cha","tag-senate","mauthors-azer-parrocha","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}